Word: harlows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that morning, the White House was getting desperate. Liaison men under Bryce Harlow began telephoning every Republican who might waver. They tried to convince each one that he was the key to victory for Carswell: "You're the one. You make the difference." Incredibly, some, like Maryland's Charles Mathias, had been ignored until then. There was now great alarm in the White House, and the President was frantic for information. Senator Dole called Nixon Tuesday night. "How does it look?" the President asked. "Rough," said Dole. "It hinges on two Senators, Mrs. Smith and Marlow Cook...
...Wednesday morning, the day of the vote, Nixon got worse news. Cook called Harlow to say that he had decided to oppose Carswell. Cook had relayed the same news to Mrs. Smith and Prouty ?so that each would know the situation. Relieved that the matter would not be decided by one vote, Prouty told Cook: "It is my intention to vote no." The White House reacted recklessly. Calls went out to such Republicans as Mathias, Cook, and Pennsylvania's Richard Schweiker, reporting that the Administration had Mrs. Smith's vote...
...Historian C. Vann Woodward, "is in tune with the reaction and quite accommodating to it." The White House greeted questions about the segregationist amendments with ambivalence. When Senate G.O.P. Leader Hugh Scott, for example, tried to head off the Stennis amendment with a more innocuous rider, Presidential Counsellor Bryce Harlow sent around a note saying, "Your amendment is Administration language." But, Harlow added, "other approaches would also accord with the President's basic objective-racial equality." The "other approach" was that of John Stennis...
...Government is deeply concerned. Last week Bryce Harlow, national affairs counselor to President Nixon, warned a Washington conference of the American Advertising Federation that agency officials must monitor more closely the claims they make for products or else face speedier federal intervention. He pointed to a number of bills in the House and Senate, all supported by the Administration, that would give the Federal Trade Commission immediate power to seek preliminary injunctions against deceptive ads. Now the FTC often must wage lengthy court battles in order to make a company delete misleading claims. But if it were armed with...
With this in mind, Sargent spoke to Nixon and presidential advisors John D. Ehrlichman and Bryce Harlow in Washington yesterday about the possibilities of keeping the center in operation for some sort of government activity. After the 30 minute meeting, Sargent said he was "very much encouraged" by Nixon's commitment to "explore all avenues" to find some new federal research for the center...